Front Page created Web site has wrapped text on some browsers.

[GregFiore]

Some browsers are distorting My web site pages, by
causing a carriage return line feed (Word wrap) where
none should be. Internet explorer on one computer shows
the text line correctly, while IE on another computer shows
the word wrap. I reset the resolution on the offending computer, but it made no difference. I have gone back into the web page and made sure that there were no hidden CRLF where the word wraps were occurring. I use a lot of Layers. I always look at the page with the browsers tool in Front Page, but the limited selections show nothing.
What can be set or how can I fix this problem?
Greg Fiore

 

[kjv1611]

I have a couple of possible guesses:
1. One allowing ActiveX controls, and one not?
2. One may have security settings blocking some frames in your page, and one not? For instance, I noticed at work that our Norton Security (ad blocking section) was causing problems with the layouts of some pages, when it blocked the banner ads.

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[CoreyBryant]

These layers (actually divides), how are they created? Are you using a DOCTYPE? Frontpage will create some bloated code unfortunately and some browsers won't display it properly. Even IE 7 will have some issues from time to time

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[kjv1611]

My suggestions were related to the fact that IE works fine on one machine, but not on another. IMHO, based on that criteria, I would first think it has something to do with local security/privacy settings of some sort.

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[GregFiore]

Thank you kjv1611 and Corey,
I believe it is a DOCTYPE issue.
Apparently Frontpage puts a DOCTYPE 4.0 in automatically,
however this statement doesn't do anything because it is
not followed with another statement which gives an http:
address. So all browsers that read the page go into "quirks mode" which lets any browser do the best job
that it can!! I have fooled around with the DOCTYPE statement...changing it to 4.01 and adding the http:/...
statement, and it does change what the browsers see and what Frontpage shows in Design mode.
I wish I had known more about this when I started because I would have added the statements initially. To see the
DOCTYPE statement: be in design mode then click the code
button (bottom left next to Design view)..The DOCTYPE statement is the first statement before the HTML stuff.
Greg Fiore